3 The command

For the most part, you can keep the command line. However, note that path specification is different in Linux (from that of Windows). Particularly, when you want to specify a CD-ROM device, you use the following option in Linux:

-cdrom /dev/cdrom  
  

If you want to specify the path to an ISO image, remember to use forward slash instead of back-slash.

Because QEMU is a system installation on most Linux systems, you don’t need to specify where to find the BIOS files of the VM. As a result, you should remove the option “-L . ” (including the period).